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Difficulty adjustment is not so much about linmtiig the supply of bitcoins. Block generation is how the network verifies transactions, and getting 50 BTC per block (for now) is only a nice bonus for maintaining the network. The difficulty system aims to limit block generation to one every 10 minutes on average, so the entire network has time to agree on which block is the latest.
